National Farmers Union Property & Casualty Co. v. Farmers Insurance Group

CALLISTER, Justice.

Plaintiff, National Farmers Union Property and Casualty Company, brought suit against Farmers Insurance Group 1 and Farmers Insurance Exchange (hereinafter referred to as defendant) to recover attorneys’ fees and court costs incurred in the defense of John H. Morgan, Jr. in a property damage action. Judgment of no cause of action in favor of defendant was entered below and plaintiff appeals.

The action was tried before the lower court, sitting without a jury, upon stipulated facts. It seems that John H. Morgan, Jr. took his damaged automobile to the Bountiful Motor, from…